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Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin starred in the Broadway version. The show received numerous Tony Awards, including Best Actress (LuPone). For the 1996 film which starred Madonna and Antonio...
- Stephen Sondheim
Active in major Broadway productions of American musical...
- Oscar Hammerstein II
Composers, Lyricists & Writers. ... “Show Boat” firmly...
- Frank Loesser
Composers, Lyricists & Writers. Frank Loesser. ... What They...
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
The show played for over three years in London, but its 1990...
- Charles Strouse
Composer Charles Strouse's big break came in 1960 with "Bye...
- Moss Hart
Composers, Lyricists & Writers Moss Hart A distinguished...
- Harold Rome
Harold Rome's major success came after WWII with "Call Me...
- Lorenz Hart
Composers, Lyricists & Writers Lorenz Hart Hart, Lorenz...
- Dorothy Fields
Composers, Lyricists & Writers. Dorothy Fields. Fields,...
- Joshua Logan
Composers, Lyricists & Writers. Joshua Logan. A director,...
- Stephen Sondheim
Jun 8, 2023 · When the curtains opened on the 2022-2023 Broadway season, hundreds of new artists were waiting in the wings: 363 actors, directors, designers, playwrights, composers, lyricists, book writers,...
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- Types of Broadway Musicals
- Weekly Costs of A Broadway Musical
- Music Licensing Agreements
- Subsidiary Rights/ Producer Vesting
- Grand Rights Song License Agreement
- Writing A New Song For A Musical
- Underlying Rights Agreement
- Additional Sources of Income
- Conclusion
Musicals can take many forms with the particular form many times dictating the type of contract and royalty structure received by composers, lyricists and songwriters as well as the music publishers involved. The most common types of musicals are a new show with original music and lyrics ("Hamilton", "Kinky Boots"), a "catalogue/jukebox musical" wh...
The starting point for most royalty calculations is the weekly operating costs of the musical. These costs are many and determine whether the show is making money, losing money or breaking even on a weekly basis. Most Broadway musicals’ weekly operating costs are in the area of $400,000-$750,000 but some shows are known to exceed $1,000,000 in a we...
There are three basic contracts/license arrangements that cover most situations on Broadway. They are (1) the Dramatists Guild of America (DGA) Approved Production Contract (APC), (2) Royalty Pool arrangements and (3) Fixed Dollar royalty shows. Variations of these are found in practically all Broadway productions from original shows, to revivals t...
It is important to remember that the Author (a term that includes the book writer, composer and lyricist jointly) owns and controls the play and has the right to exploit the work in other media or in other ways besides First Class live stage performances, including audio-visual productions (motion pictures, television, soundtrack albums), commercia...
When a Producer wants to use a pre-existing composition in a musical, the negotiated agreement between the copyright owner (usually the music publisher or administrator) and the Producer is referred to as a Grand Rights License Agreement. (The term “grand rights” is used to distinguish dramatic performances, i.e., those within a musical play or oth...
The basic structure for this type of agreement is as follows: As to Services, the writer is hired to compose the music and lyrics to one song for the new musical. Composer is to deliver the composition according to an agreed upon schedule and revise upon request. The Producer, in the case of a non-work-made-for-hire situation, acquires the sole and...
The Underlying Rights agreement is negotiated when a Producer wants to make a musical from a pre-existing work. Obvious examples are musicals based on motion pictures. Considering that practically all of the original music in a film (score and songs specifically written for the film) are written under work for hire contracts, the underlying rights ...
In addition to the composer/lyricist provisions for theatrical performances of a Broadway musical (e.g., 3% of the pre-recoupment adjusted GWBOR and 4% following recoupment of 110% of production costs or, in the alternative, a royalty pool based on a percentage of the weekly operating profits of the show), there are a number of other royalty relate...
Musical theatre-expensive to get into, difficult to write and many times very costly to get out of. But for the composer and lyricist of hit new musicals and past successful shows and songwriters and music publishers of pre-existing compositions used in "catalogue" musicals and dramatic plays, the theatre can be a significant source of income. Thou...
Mar 14, 2023 · This list includes women like Larissa FastHorse ( The Thanksgiving Play ), the first Native American woman to write a Broadway play; Helen Park ( KPOP ), the first Asian female composer on...
Dec 6, 2021 · Myles Frost. Michael Jackson. Born in Maryland and raised on the South East side of Washington, D.C., Myles attended Thomas Wootton High School, where he played lead roles in Hairspray, Legally...
Nov 15, 2021 · Company has officially returned to Broadway as of November 15. Meet the current cast and learn more about who is bringing this production to the stage!
Bob Fosse directed and choreographed the original production, and his style is strongly identified with the show. It debuted in the West End in 1979, where it ran for 600 performances. Chicago was revived on Broadway in 1996, and a year later in the West End.
